Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement / Grubtown Tales: The Great Pasta Disaster: A World Book Day Flip Book

Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement / Grubtown Tales: The Great Pasta Disaster: A World Book Day Flip Book

by Philip Ardagh (Author), Philip Ardagh (Author), Kaye Umansky (Author)

Synopsis

In Pongwiffy and the Important Announcement , Pongwiffy and her fellow Witches from Witchway Wood are in a spin. Grandwitch Sourmuddle is going on holiday! No matter, thinks Pongwiffy craftily, the replacement Supply Grandwitch won't mind if Pongwiffy oversleeps or is late for Coven Meetings. How little Pongwiffy knows. How much she has to learn ... Grubtown Tales: The Great Pasta Disaster : in this special World Book Day Grubtown Tale , Farflung Heaps, self-appointed leader of the Angry Mob becomes so furious about being served floppy lettuce that he challenges the restaurant to a 'pasta taste-off' with truly explosive results.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 118
Edition: World Book Day ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury / Faber and Faber
Published: 01 Mar 2010

ISBN 10: 0956287751
ISBN 13: 9780956287755
Book Overview: Pongwiffy * Celebrating 21 years of wonderful whiffy-ness, sales of the fantastically funny series have tipped 325,000 * This bite-sized adventure provides the perfect, rib-tickling introduction to the funniest witch in the woods. Supported by a bountiful backlist of Pongwiffy books Grubtown Tales * Told by one-of-a-kind Philip Ardagh in the even-more outrageous guise of Grubtown resident Beardy Ardagh * The Great Pasta Disaster serves up a diet of silliness and suspense with a side-order of Blimey!

Media Reviews
Praise for Pongwiffy: 'Brought roars of both delight and disgust ... an ebulliently uninhibited farce' Guardian Praise for Grubtown Tales: 'Silly, silly, silly. Young readers will love them. (Old readers, too ...) Philip Ardagh writes funny like he can't help it' Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Kaye Umansky is a very successful and funny writer for children, with her books ranging from picture books to novels. Her first novel, Pongwiffy, shot straight to the bestseller list on publication. Kaye lives in North London. Philip Ardagh is an award-winning children's author and is a 'regularly irregular' reviewer of children's books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown, where he cultivates his impressive beard.